land & water NEWS
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Planting season wrap up for Yakamia Creek
From the desk of Natalie, Projects Leader. In culmination of a very successful year of community events, South Coast NRM has completed another year of regeneration and planting seedlings along Yakamia Creek. Thirty-eight community members and local contractors carried...
It takes a community to win the war on microplastics
From the desk of Jimena, South Coast Enviro-Experiences Project Officer. Our incredible Esperance community recently came together for a series of beach cleanups, making such a positive impact on our beautiful coastline. With the extraordinary support of Southern...
Protecting our marine wildlife from disposable plastics
From the desk of Catherine, South Coast Enviro-Experiences Project Officer. We are constantly confronted with reminders of the extensive harm that disposable plastics are inflicting upon our marine wildlife. There have been consistent messages emphasising the threat...
Inspiration and opportunities to make sustainable choices
From the desk of Catherine, South Coast Enviro-Experiences Project Officer. You don’t have to be a greenie to understand how important it is to be ‘sustainable in your own backyard’. Inspiration and opportunities to make sustainable choices were showcased en-mass at...
DUSK WATCH THE PERFECT TIME TO MONITOR NOCTUNAL ANIMALS
From the desk of Catherine, South Coast Enviro-Experiences Project Officer. Tjuirtgellong/ Lake Seppings provided the ideal location for the Conservation Council of WA and the South Coast Enviro Experiences team to take a passionate group of citizen scientists to...
WONDERFUL WILDFLOWERS CELEBRATED ACROSS THE SOUTH COAST
From the desk of Jimena, South Coast Enviro-Experiences Project Officer. The South Coast Enviro Experiences team had an incredible week at the Esperance Wildflower Festival. We're still basking in the afterglow of this year's event and wanted to extend our heartfelt...
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES TO PROTECT OUR OCEAN
From the desk of Jimena, South Coast Enviro-Experiences Project Officer. Surrounded by great weather and the beautiful scenery of Picnic Cove, we engaged students with a lesson about fish and their unique characteristics, a topic that students had been researching...
DEEP IN THE MUD AT SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE FIELD DAY
From the desk of Sophie, Regional Agricultural Landcare Facilitator - East. After nigh on 11 inches of rain over two months at the Neridup subsurface drainage trial site, the heavens continued to open in early August. On Thursday, 3rd August, with less than twelve...
ESPERANCE KIDS TAKE ON WAVES OF KNOWLEDGE FROM OCEAN SCHOOL
From the desk of Jimena, South Coast Enviro-Experiences Project Officer. Once again, an amazing group of 45 home schoolers and parents gathered at 11 Mile Beach in Esperance for their second edition of Ocean School. Whales were this weeks subject of study, to mark...
AN ENTHUSIASTIC START TO OCEAN SCHOOL ON THE SOUTH COAST
From the desk of Jimena, South Coast Enviro-Experiences Project Officer. 11 Mile Beach in Esperance was the perfect location for our first session of Ocean School with an enthusiastic group of home school kids. We started the day learning about the ocean and the...
SUPPORTING FARMERS TOWARDS CARBON NEUTRALITY 2030
From the desk of Suzannah, Adoption Coordinator. Farming is on the front lines of climate change in Australia – bearing the brunt of droughts, flood and fire, while also contributing to carbon emissions. But farmers also have significant opportunity and keen...
TURNING OCEAN TRASH INTO TREASURE
From the desk of Catherine, Project Officer South Coast Enviro-Experiences. There are some amazing things that can be achieved when you volunteer your time caring for our marine environment! The City of Albany World Ocean Day basket weaving workshop, supported by...